Perhaps not what you musicians had in mind — but whether it’s making a violin or viola or something a lot more physical, like cutting up a hickory or oak tree for the wood-stove I enjoy working with wood. I cut up windfalls or heavily damaged trees on our property (with lots of help from […]
OK, its a newly photographed violin. I completed this one some months ago, but I’ve only lately gotten around to photograph it. I hesitated because it didn’t feel finished until recently. Multiple sound-posts, bridges, tail-pieces, tail-guts (varying materials and lengths), chin-rests, and string brands…I juggled all these components to optimize the inherent character of this
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I spent the past week at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking (Franklin, IN) teaching students from Arlington, VA to Monterey, CA, from a wide range of backgrounds, and at all skill levels. They were there to learn the ins and outs (more like the swirls and swoops) of carving a violin scroll. The
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